The Metropolitan Opera Stories of the Great Operas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Metropolitan Opera Stories of the Great Operas write by John W. Freeman. This book was released on 1984. The Metropolitan Opera Stories of the Great Operas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Contains the plots of 150 of the world's most popular operas, short biographies of the 72 composers represented, plus background material pertinent to each work.
The Metropolitan Opera Presents Stories of the Great Operas
The Metropolitan Opera Presents Stories of the Great Operas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Metropolitan Opera Presents Stories of the Great Operas write by John Freeman. This book was released on 1984. The Metropolitan Opera Presents Stories of the Great Operas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Grand Opera
Grand Opera - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Grand Opera write by Charles Affron. This book was released on 2014-09-22. Grand Opera available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Metropolitan has stood among the grandest of opera companies since its birth in 1883. Tracing the offstage/onstage workings of this famed New York institution, Charles Affron and Mirella Jona Affron tell how the Met became and remains a powerful actor on the global cultural scene. In this first new history of the company in thirty years, each of the chronologically sequenced chapters surveys a composer or a slice of the repertoire and brings to life dominant personalities and memorable performances of the time. From the opening night Faust to the recent controversial production of Wagner’s "Ring," Grand Opera is a remarkable account of management and audience response to the push and pull of tradition and reinvention. Spanning the decades between the Gilded Age and the age of new media, this story of the Met concludes by tipping its hat to the hugely successful "Live in HD" simulcasts and other twenty-first-century innovations. Grand Opera’s appeal extends far beyond the large circle of opera enthusiasts. Drawing on unpublished documents from the Metropolitan Opera Archives, reviews, recordings, and much more, this richly detailed book looks at the Met in the broad context of national and international issues and events.
Molto Agitato
Molto Agitato - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Molto Agitato write by Johanna Fiedler. This book was released on 2003-09-09. Molto Agitato available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. If the opera world is full of “intrigue, double meanings, and devious dramatics,” then no place exemplifies this more than the world-famous Metropolitan Opera, where politics, ambition, and oversized egos have traditionally taken center stage along with some of the world’s richest music. Drawing on her fifteen years as its press representative, Johanna Fiedler explodes the traditional secrecy that surrounds the Met in this wonderfully entertaining account of its tumuluous history. Fiedler chronicles the Met’s early days as a home for legends like Toscanini, Mahler, and Caruso, and gives a fascinating account of the middle years when haughty blue-bloods battled stubborn adminstrators for control of a company that would emerge as America’s premiere opera house. She takes us behind the grand gold-curtain stage in more recent years as well, showing how musical superstars like Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo, and Kathleen Battle have electrified performances and scandalized the public. But most revelatory are Fiedler’s portrayals of James Levine and Joseph Volpe and their practically parallel ascendancies—Levine rising from prodigy to artistic director, Volpe advancing from stagehand to general manager—and their once strained relationship. Weaving together the personal, economic, and artistic struggles that characterize the Met’s long and vibrant history, Molto Agitato is a must-read saga of power, wealth, and, above all, great music.
The Metropolitan Opera Presents: Puccini's Tosca
The Metropolitan Opera Presents: Puccini's Tosca - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Metropolitan Opera Presents: Puccini's Tosca write by Luigi Illica. This book was released on 2013-10-01. The Metropolitan Opera Presents: Puccini's Tosca available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. (Amadeus). An idealistic artist, a celebrated opera singer, and a corrupt police chief engage in a fierce battle of wills in this tempestuous tale of passion, intrigue, cruelty, and deception. Puccini's great melodrama may be set in 1800, amid the Napoleonic wars, but the conflicts between love and loyalty, the state and the individual, and hypocrisy and principle are anything but dated. Floria Tosca, the beautiful, glamorous singer who has all of Rome at her feet, is one of the iconic soprano roles in the Italian repertoire. She's caught between two men: her lover, the handsome painter Cavaradossi, who defies the law to hide a rebel friend; and the villainous Baron Scarpia, Rome's all-powerful chief of police, who will stop at nothing to crush the rebels and conquer Tosca for himself. This gripping story of torture, attempted rape, murder, suicide, and general mayhem is as thrilling and dramatic as anything seen on the operatic stage.
